The organisation 'Migration Watch' has awoken to the potential dangers of vast numbers of Romanians and Bulgarians invading the UK once restrictions on their movements are lifted next year. Being members of the EU, their citizens will have the right to travel anywhere in the EU area without restriction and will be entitled to everything that the already settled populations of every country receives.
For the UK this will mean, according to 'Migration Watch', something like 50,000 people from these countries coming to the UK every year for at least the first 5 years of free movement; they will be entitled to free access to the NHS, free education for their children, housing, employment and benefits in exactly the same way as are all existing citizens, regsardless of the fact that they will not have paid a single penny in and quite possibly will be sending money 'home' as fast as they can.
That this situation is wrong is obvious. That successive UK governments have allowed it to develop is shocking and disgraceful. Governments whose first priority is to safeguard their own population seem to have gone out of their way to create a situation in which they've done exactly the opposite; we could now be heading towards a repeat of the 'Polish' problem which occurred a few years ago and which has led to Poles now being a very significant group in our society.
Inevitably, the ministerial response to this issue has been to ignore it. Instead of answering the concerns expresses by 'Migration Watch', they simply say that 'calculations are difficult' and 'the Home Office is working to cut net immigration'. This is no more than meaningless rhetoric and is insulting to those who elected them; these people are paid extremely well to deal with 'difficult calculations' and they and their predecessors have been 'working hard to cut immigration' since the 1970s, with very little success.
Surely the time has now come when our government has to cry 'Enough ! Thus far and no further !'.
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